Reasons for an English Parliament…

In a recent trawl of the Nationalist websites and forums I kept a note of the main reasons that were stated for wanting an English Parliament by those people who frequent such places; and here are just ten of the reasons, and I point out that these are direct quotes:-

i Scotland is sucking the life blood of England
ii The Scots are anti-English wankers and we want rid of them
iii England is being ruled by the Scots
iv The English are a violently suppressed minority
v There are too many immigrants and asylum seekers claiming the benefit that only the Engish are entitled to
vi Scotland has one so we should have one too
vii The English are superior and should have a say in what happens to them
viii We want our country back
ix We are fed up with paying for Scotland
x We want out of Europe

I have not bothered to rank these reasons at all, so they are simply presented as they got selected. For a moment there I thought that I had regressed some fifty years and was back in the playground once more with some kid screaming “I’m not playing any more, and I’m taking my bat and ball as well”, such is the degree of petulance displayed. I really could not believe that it is grown people who are saying such things; I refrain from saying thinking people, because I don’t think that they think at all, they just follow the lead of people like Sue Reid, who writes such vitriolic crap as this, in the Daily Mail, who promulgate such hypocrisy, bigotry and racism every day in the gutter press.

I am not a fan of Nationalism in any form, and have stated that plainly elswhere in this blog. However, and here I will head off the Nationalists by saying that I have no problem with an English Parliament; but it has to be thought through very carefully, and take into account all nationalities living in England along with ensuring some autonomy for the regions. The one thing that I do have a problem with is that the English Nationalist movement has become the home of choice for so many of the vitriolic, racist, bigoted and hypocritical hotheads who spout such rubbish as we find above; the people who provide the fodder upon which all kinds of fanatics can feed.

Yet Another Whinge…

I found this vitrolic piece of crap in the same place as yesterday’s. I will pick out just one piece of it for comment:-

Here are more examples of the ‘benefits’ Scots in office have visited upon England, for it is England which bears the brunt of it all when being mismanaged by one Scot after another!

All I can ask is why keep on whingeing about it? It just gets more and more boring as the weeks pass; I would remind these whingers that it was the English who voted these people into Westminster, so if anyone is to blame it is themselves. The one thing that I can’t understand is why they don’t stop whingeing and bloody well do something constructive for once!

I also have to say that this is a typical piece of Daily Mail sensationalism, but then what more can we expect from a rag whose most fitting place would be a nail behind the toilet door, even then I would think several times before wiping my arse with it.

Talk about Paranoid

There is nothing more that I can say about this incoherent, misinformed, paranoid load of rubbish other than to say read this and weep at the vitriolic, misinformed garbage that these so called guardians of Englishness pour forth…

I could not even be bothered to cut and paste the misinformed bits to address them as it would be impossible to know where to start!

They were Warned!

OK, at the risk of pissing off all of the reasonable people out there I have made the decision that all comments are going to be moderated on this blog from this point forward. This situation has arisen because there are a small minority out there who have dedided to spoil it for everyone else; they cannot be bothered to stick to the rules of commenting in as much as all they want to do is hurl abuse and insults, like the person who left four comments yesterday, I give you:-

Comment:
Murray twat doesnt like England; murray twat DELIBERATELY plays tennis in England, I.E. at Wimbledon.
Therefore murray twat is FUCKIN SWEATY HYPOCRITE….INNIT MATE?

Comment:
Bong twat spouts:

“I sincerely hope that those English Nationalists who promulgate the vitriolic bigotry and racism south of the border reap what they sow!”

Oh do you? Shut up idiot, nobody gives a f*ck what insignificant little you thinks!
I bet you’re ugly! Any money! F*ckin’ son of Neanderthal I bet. Ginger minge twat!
I can’t tell you in words how f*ckin’ borin’ you are. The anti English thing’s been going on for years. All you’re doing is repeating other people’s words you tool. You are F*CKIN’ BORIN’ SONNY!

Comment:
Youre a fool aint yer sweatysock?

Comment:
Youre not anti Engerlander? AHA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

Now I took the step of approving these comments which had been targeted for moderation, but I also took the step of editing them, and they now say what the writer should have said in the first place:-

I am a complete idiot, I can’t read and I can’t write in a coherent manner, and when it comes to a reasoned argument I really don’t know what that means. However I do have a very good grasp of Anglo Saxon language and I know how to throw insults at people; I also have a VERY narrow mind and anybody who doesn’t think like me is just plain wrong. In fact I am just a plain and simple waste of space!

The commentor may not like this very much, but must understand that if insults and abuse are hurled in this direction then I will retaliate in a similar vein, but I will do it politely and with good English rather than Anglo Saxon language; in other words I will not tell him/her to “Fuck Off”, I will politely tell her/him to “leave my space if they cannot obey the rules” I know that the first thing I am now going to be accused of is “censorship”, well, so be it; they have had their chance and have been warned on many occasions, and now they have pushed my patience just about as far as it is possible to do and so they reap what they sow.

One final point I would like them to take on board, and I will put it terms that they can understand:-

Fucking read what I fucking write and fucking think about it before you open your big fucking mouth!

A Message for the Nationalists

This is for all of those “Little Englander’s” out there:-

The world
in which you were born
is just one model
of reality.

Other Cultures
ARE NOT
failed attempts
at being you,
they are unique
manifestations
of the human spirit!

I suggest it is read and thought upon!

At Last a Voice of Commonsense!

I have just read this in The Guardian, and it is refreshing to read something that is born of common sense; oh, there will be those who accuse Tim Martin of blatantly using this topic to advertise Wetherspoons. However, my advice is to read what he is actually saying, and I think that most people would agree with me that it does make sense. I am of a generation who did not find it difficult to get served in the local at the age of 15, even though the barman knew me and exactly how old I was. This was where I learnt respect for alcohol, seeing those old enough to be there legally getting rat arsed but not being allowed the same privilege myself as the barman was quite strict about what, and how much, I could drink. Now, as this article points out, due to the authoritarian atittude of government

The result was a blind eye turned to the real problem of teenagers drinking on the beach or in town centres, armed with drinks like vodka purchased from supermarkets or off-licences.

Now, I know which choice I would prefer to see happening, and that is that kids are welcomed in pubs where an eye can be kept on what and how much they drink as opposed to kids drinking alcohol in public places, probably bought for them by older peers, with absolutely no control over what or how much they drink. Maybe it is about time that politicians got off of their fat, drunken arses and did what needs to be done with the idea of the nanny state, flush it down the bloody toilet.

Gurdeep: A Response…

OK so I have been accused of several things by the author of Waking Hereward; basically the accusations boil down to not responding to a particular comment here in a manner that was thought to be required. I give you from here:-

Anyway, I trolled down the comments, gradually losing the will to read and despising the hectoring control freakery with which Numptie revels – until I happened upon Gurdeep’s comment, posted on July 2nd of this year.. I have copied it below in its entirety. There is also Numptie’s feeble response – and Gurdeep’s reply. I reckon the comments policy has just had to be redefined as Numptie gets a comment from someone who doesn’t fit his stereotypical pigeon holes…..

There are several accusations here; “the hectoring control freakery with which Numptie revels”, “Numptie’s feeble response”, and last but not least putting people into “stereotypical pigeon holes”.

So let me deal with these points: a) the hectoring control freakery with which Numptie revels: if the deleting of insulting and abusive comments whislt at the same time preparing to engage in a “reasoned” debate is “control freakery” then yes I suppose that I am a control freak; however a control freak that believes in the freedom of speech and who will defend anyone’s right to voice their opinion. b) Numptie’s feeble response: well the response I made to a comment was:-

I will come back to your points Gurdeep when I return home from a short trip…

Well I am back from the short trip and have had several very busy months since; also I do not respond to anything that I have not checked out for myself, unlike those in the English Nationalist movement who tend to shoot off their mouths before checking the facts. I fully intend to respond to Gurdeep’s comment, and that is what this post is all about. c) stereotypical pigeon holes: well this just made me laugh coming from someone who supports the inherent divisiveness of English Nationalism!

So next a response:

First of all let me make it quite clear from the outset, as I have stated in a comment eslewhere:-

“I have little time for the more extreme faces of Nationalism of any kind; one only has to look back to the 1930’s to see where rampant nationalism led us, into a second world war! On the other hand I do not and never have denied that there is a case for an English Parliament, but I temper that with the caveat that it must be properly thought out and take all of the English regions into consideration; something that most of the English Nationalists who visit here find hard to understand.”

I wanted to make that point in order that I cannot be accused of taking sides with any particular brand of nationalism.

I also think that it is wrong to lump all Nationalists together as there are good and bad apples in every barrel; and I have no time for those hotheaded Cornish Nationalists who are giving all Cornish Nationalists a bad name in the same way that the hotheads within English Nationalism that I attack are giving English Nationalism a bad name. I happen to know a couple of people who take an English Nationalist stance who absolutely agree with me about the vitriolic, racist bigots who have attached themselves to the cause.

I agree that we do not “see English nationalists burning British, Scottish, Welsh or Cornish flags“; but what we do see from the hotheads is far, far worse in that their attitudes are divisive in that they are hell bent on setting minority against minority, of promoting a highlighting of “difference”. For instance there is a move afoot to have a seperate box on the census form for those who want to define themselves as English, Simon Maine over on Unlock Democracy puts it far better that I can when he says:-

The problem is that this census encourages people to separate themselves on the grounds of race as well as nationality. I accept that many families are English-based and stretch back for generations. There are perfect grounds to claim English national identity, but it says sweet FA about their ethnicity, nor should it. After so many years of cultural and racial ‘cross-pollination’, I would be surprised if someone could truly tell apart an Englishman from a Scotsman, an Irishman or a Welshman. Is there really any distinguishing marker that the English maintain to themselves in this modern age?

It is a corollary of bringing democracy closer to the people that it will necessarily stir up feelings of national pride and identity. This can be a healthy reaction. However, what we do not want is for it to stir up feelings of racial and ethnic differences within these Isles. The English may have an identity but it is specious to deduce from that they have an ethnicity as well. We must quickly separate the devolution debate from its potential for racialism if we are to move forward without controversy.

Gurdeep says that

The English accept that multiple identities are possible because the vast majority of them, even the most passionate Englishmen, tend to also feel British or have some strong regional identity, or perhaps some other ethnic identity like Indian. This is something that the Celtic nationalists don’t really understand, much less appreciate. England is much more tolerant and multicultural in this respect.

Here I do disagree; I suspect that most English people couldn’t give a damn about who comes from where, or about the ethnicity of those around them, they are too busy living their own lives; it is just the minority who want to highlight such differences. I would also say that the Celtic Nationalists perfectly understand all about multiculturalism; you only have to come to Edinburgh and Glasgow, both of which have diverse multicultural communities. Not only that but all of the ethnic communities rub along quite well together on the whole. Now I am not saying that there is an absence of racism or bigotry buried within these various communities, that would be inherently stupid of me, because there is, although not to the extent that one sees from the more unacceptabale face of English Nationalism.

Finally, I have to agree with Gurdeep when he states that he does not “understand the animosity that this debate generates“; neither do I. I was raised to respect my fellow human being regardless of sex, colour, creed etc. etc., and that is precisely what I try to do; however, those who are hell bent on the divisiveness of racism and bigotry do severely stretch my capacity to respect them.

Hopefully I have addressed, to some extent, the points raised by Gurdeep; although I know that it will not be to the satisfaction of the English Nationalists, because as we all know “they are right and I am wrong”, which is always their starting poing in any argument.

English Identity?

This is so typical of the English Nationalists; condemn something completely out of hand before even giving it a chance, as we can see here:-

Andrew Marr will be narrating a programme about the English on Monday 3rd September at 9.00am on Radio 4.

Should make interesting reading, as it always is when a Scot talks about the English in such an “inciteful way”

Hope you manage to catch it.

I mean it is interesting that the author of this diatribe should know that Andrew Marr was going to be talking in an “inciteful way” on his series “Unmasking the English” before the first programme was even broadcast! I also like the fact that a radio programme “Should make interesting reading“; maybe I have been under a misapprehension for all these years, and I should have been reading the radio instead of listening to it! But then what can one expect from such people who will take any opportunity for an anti-Scottish rant, and after all Andrew Marr is definitely “not one of us old boy!” (English that is). I have to say that I think that Andrew Marr is an excellent, and completely ubiased journalist, and , having missed the programme this morning, I am looking forward to listening to the repeat this evening as I think it will be an interesting and illuminating programme.

It is just such a pity that the English Nationalist have to shoot their mouths off before actually gathering the evidence to support their arguments, not that there is much evidence of them being a “victimised minority” to be found in the first place. If they actually bothered to take the trouble to research their claims then, just maybe, it might be possible to have a reasoned debate with them. Oh, but I forget, their idea of a reasoned debate is “we are right and you are all wrong”, and if all else fails the whole thing descends into insults and abuse…